Pablo Uc
Post-Doc Fellow
Pablo Uc is a writer, academic, and activist of Mexican Mayan origin. He is involved in academic research, university teaching, and editing specialized journals focusing on political economy, geopolitics, and international relations. His research focuses on the theoretical development of critical and decolonial geopolitics, democracy, State, and social movements in Latin America and the Caribbean. He has conducted research on regional integration, multilateralism, and the geopolitics of resistance of Indigenous peoples in Abiayala. Additionally, he has promoted research projects in the fields of democracy, autonomy and self-governance, social movements, and manifestations of authoritarianism in southeastern Mexico and Central America. He has also promoted Social forums on alternative democracies, which foster critical dialogues between activists, academics, human rights organizations, journalists, and social movements that defend life and territory against extractive dispossession projects in Chiapas, southern Mexico, and Central America. He is a member of the Working Group on Bodies, Territories, and Resistance of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and currently serves as the Coordinator of the Observatory of Democracies: Southern Mexico and Central America, in Chiapas, Mexico. He holds a bachelor's degree in International Relations and Political Science from the University of Guadalajara (Mexico), a master's degree in Social Sciences and Humanities with a specialty in history and political geography from the Center for Higher Studies of Mexico and Central America (CESMECA), and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS).